Exploring the practicing-connections hypothesis: using gesture to support coordination of ideas in understanding a complex statistical concept

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Son, Ji Y ^a   Ramos, Priscilla ^a   DeWolf, Melissa ^b   Loftus, William ^b   Stigler, James W ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational technology; Embodied cognition; Gestures; Lecture video; Online education; Statistics education; Student learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85075398084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23657464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s41235-017-0085-0     Document Type: Article

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